Create a Snapchat Geofilter for Your Makerspace

Makerspaces offer us the perfect opportunity to connect with the community.

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Makerspaces offer us the perfect opportunity to connect with the community. This can mean the local school community, but this can also mean the wider global community. Celebrating students accomplishments and showcasing their creations with this community is an integral part of the Maker Movement and can have a profound impact on our learners. I have seen first-hand many times how pushing students' making stories out to the wider world can motivate them to take their learning deeper, giving them an authentic audience.

In our makerspace, I take photographs of everything our students do and display them all throughout our library. In addition, I tweet these photos to the hashtag for our makerspace, #worldsofmaking. I also capture on video as much of our making as I can, and upload those videos to our Vine channel.

It is important to view what is happening in your makerspace as a narrative, or a story, and think how you can best tell that story by leveraging the media platforms that are now available. We need to communicate our stories across various platforms in meaningful and effective ways. When telling these stories, we need to be sure to play up the strength of each medium..what does each platform do best? We also need to recognize that not everyone is in one place online and that we need to do our best to meet people where they are.

After a few days, Snapchat reviewed and approved my Geofilter submission. Be sure to check the Snapchat Geofilter Submission Guidelines for more tips on designing your Geofilter. The possibilities for Snapchat in your makerspace are endless. It is an effective platform to use to show the many exciting things happening in your makerspace on a daily basis.